Today's music, while not total crap, is deaigned more for entertainment than to be truly meaningful.
Discus.
Today's music, while not total crap, is deaigned more for entertainment than to be truly meaningful.
Discus.
Brian: What's it called?
Stewie "Susie".
Brian: [sarcastically] Wow, a song named after a girl. There aren't a million of those already.
Stewie: [annoyed] Name twenty!
Brian: "Rosanna", "Roxanne", "Michelle", "Allison", "Sarah", "Angie", "Brandy", "Mandy", "Gloria", "Cecilia", "Maggie May", "Jessica", "Nancy", "Barbara Ann", "Billie Jean", "Layla", "Lola", "Polly", "Helena", "Jenny from the Block".
Stewie: Name six more.
Brian: "Sherry", "Laura", "Wendy", "Maria", "Peggy Sue", "Minnie the Moocher".
Stewie: Name five more.
Brian: "Tracy", "Jean", "Jane", "Mary Ann", "Eleanor Rigby".
[Short pause; Stewie then throws his guitar on the floor and walks out]
Stewie: Go f*ck yourself.
Anything by Adele.
krispy kremlin_._._ wrote:
Anything by Adele.
Are they great songs, or is she just a great singer? I have no doubt about the latter but I don't know if her songwriting is on par with, say, Dylan.
thejeff wrote:
Today's music, while not total crap, is deaigned more for entertainment than to be truly meaningful.
Discus.
A) I think every generation makes this same claim. It's a matter of changing taste.
B) Music is cyclical. 60s into early 70s was "meaningful," then it went to crap for a while until the '90s, stayed pretty decent through the mid 00s. Now we're in a crap phase again. That doesn't mean there are no good songs left to be written.
C) There are always pockets of greatness. Those pockets should, in theory, be easier to find thanks to the internet. I can't say that I'm looking so I don't know where to point you, but I can all but guarantee someone out there is writing fantastic stuff.
Rollin by limp bizkit
It has been awhile. I'd go all the way back to Queen's "Fat Bottomed Girls."
Get on your bikes and ride!
There are more opportunities than ever for artists to have their work heard.
Iron and Wine (e.g. The Trapeze Swinger), Amos Lee (e.g. Violin), Tallest Man on Earth (e.g. , Shallow Grave), Ray LaMontagne (e.g. Beg Steal or Borrow) are some fairly well-known artists that come immediately to mind who have written multiple great songs. I'm sure if I thought for more than a couple of minutes I could come up with many more.
Bohemian Rhapsody
There will never be another song that is played live by a more diverse group of artists (Panic at the Disco, Pink, Zach Brown Band, Beyonce, even Kanye West, etc.) with a near total acknowledgement of its greatness as evidenced by the entire audience actively participating in singing along, often louder than the actual hits of the band. There was a youtube clip of almost the entire audience singing along with it while it was played as background music between artists at a Green Day concert.
Night Fever - Bee Gees
Stayin Alive - Bee Gees
Jive Talkin - Bee Gees
Eric prydz opus
"Hometown Glory" by Adele is great
Courtney Barnett writes great stuff
The War on Drugs has some great tunes as well
So do Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
Ted Underhill wrote:
Bohemian Rhapsody
There will never be another song that is played live by a more diverse group of artists (Panic at the Disco, Pink, Zach Brown Band, Beyonce, even Kanye West, etc.) with a near total acknowledgement of its greatness as evidenced by the entire audience actively participating in singing along, often louder than the actual hits of the band. There was a youtube clip of almost the entire audience singing along with it while it was played as background music between artists at a Green Day concert.
That is a GREAT call.
All I could come up with was Michael Jackson's "Man in the Mirror".
Flagpole wrote:
Brian: What's it called?
Stewie "Susie".
Brian: [sarcastically] Wow, a song named after a girl. There aren't a million of those already.
Stewie: [annoyed] Name twenty!
Brian: "Rosanna", "Roxanne", "Michelle", "Allison", "Sarah", "Angie", "Brandy", "Mandy", "Gloria", "Cecilia", "Maggie May", "Jessica", "Nancy", "Barbara Ann", "Billie Jean", "Layla", "Lola", "Polly", "Helena", "Jenny from the Block".
Stewie: Name six more.
Brian: "Sherry", "Laura", "Wendy", "Maria", "Peggy Sue", "Minnie the Moocher".
Stewie: Name five more.
Brian: "Tracy", "Jean", "Jane", "Mary Ann", "Eleanor Rigby".
[Short pause; Stewie then throws his guitar on the floor and walks out]
Stewie: Go f*ck yourself.
lolol I love Family Guy.
I actually recognize the majority of those... not a chance I could come up with a third of them on my own...
Who's definition of a great song are we going by???
hmmmmmmmmmm wrote:
Who's definition of a great song are we going by???
Yours.
hmmmmmmmmmm wrote:
Who's definition of a great song are we going by???
You will know it when you hear it.
"Brave" by Sara Bareilles gets my vote hands down!
so say the supremes wrote:
hmmmmmmmmmm wrote:Who's definition of a great song are we going by???
You will know it when you hear it.
1964,
You might be interested to know that the Potter Stewart quote was actually provided to him by his law clerk, Alan Novak ’55, ’63 LLB. Justice Stewart was a great justice and I do not want to take anything away from him. But he was stuck on how to describe pornography, and Novak said to him, “Mr. Justice, you will know it when you see it.†The justice agreed, and Novak included that remark in the draft of the opinion.
I disagree 100%. There is a ton of great music being written, all you have to do is open your ears and listen. You probably won't find it on mainstream radio, though.
You just have to find something that you connect with. Go see some local bands. Go to a music festival.